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  • End to End Assumption Documentation Practices
    End to End Assumption Documentation Practices On October 30, 2015, the SOA Assumption Development ... companies were represented in the call, including direct insurers, reinsurers and consulting firms. This ...

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    • Authors: Alexander Zaidlin, Hua Li
    • Date: Mar 2016
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Best practices; Experience Studies & Data
  • The Lowly Loss Ratio
    The Lowly Loss Ratio Loss ratio formulas that make it a good tool for financial analysis, with modifications ... business such as disability income and long term care. Loss ratio=LR; 9193 12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Paul Margus
    • Date: Dec 2007
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Health & Disability
  • Impacts of AG 48
    AG 48, which prescribes the Required Level of Primary Security based on the Actuarial Method, a modified ... VM-20, and the asset classes that can be held as Primary Security. ACTUARIAL GUIDELINE 48 On Dec. 16, 2014 ...

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    • Authors: Francis Rahil, Keith Bucich, John Shaw
    • Date: Dec 2015
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • Financial Reporting Section News March 2012
    service contracts that provide service as their primary purpose, and that meet all of the following criteria: ... benefits, including participating features, and direct expenses, including acquisition costs. Inflows ...

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    • Date: Mar 2012
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>International Financial Reporting Standards [IFRS]
  • European CFO Embedded Value Guidelines
    information is supple- mentary to the company’s primary published financial statements (for example, U ... financial options and guarantees. This principle is a direct response to those concerns. This principle is ...

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    • Authors: William R Horbatt
    • Date: Dec 2004
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Embedded value; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Setting Ascribed Premiums for Market Risk Benefits under FASB Targeted Improvements
    Contract: The contract holder has the ability to direct funds to one or more separate account investment ... Avoiding a GAAP equity restatement may be the primary con- sideration because many companies use return ...

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    • Authors: Shaowei Yang, David Ruiz
    • Date: Jun 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Fair value accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • Purchase GAAP for Equity-Indexed Annuities
    derivatives at issue. This guidance is very helpful for direct writers because the basis of the hybrid contract ... being comparable with the practice used by the direct writer, reinsurance premium can be used as the ...

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    • Authors: Vincent Y Y Tsang
    • Date: Jun 2003
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Generally Accepted Accounting Principles [GAAP]
  • The Relationship of Mortality Projections and the Underlying Mortality Tables Used
    and ultimate mortality table should be especially care- ful in setting their mortality assumptions. If ... of fluid- tested underwriting). Many companies (direct writers, as well as reinsurers) have reduced profit ...

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    • Authors: Larry Warren
    • Date: Sep 2002
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance
  • Book Review – The Analysis of Insurance Earnings: An Enterprise Approach by John McGarry and Kevin Pledge
    Book Review – The Analysis of Insurance Earnings: An Enterprise Approach by John McGarry ... also treated separately, although the analysis of direct business and reinsurance can be subsequently combined ...

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    • Authors: Carol A Marler
    • Date: Dec 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Data warehousing
  • Pricing for the Volatility Risk of Traditional Actuarial Risks
    pricing for substan- dard mortality and long-term care pricing would involve condition C, and so on. In ... e.g. the pricing random variable for long-term care will be impacted by the various combina- tions of ...

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    • Authors: Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Charles I Vinsonhaler
    • Date: Mar 2003
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: The Financial Reporter
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments